"Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1972

Saturday, February 4, 2017

GUAM DAILY POST: CHURCH WOULD CONSIDER SETTLEMENT

Byrnes: Church would consider out-of-court settlement

Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes told the Post during an interview yesterday that he would consider an out-of-court settlement in the child sexual abuse cases currently filed against members of the Catholic Church. CONTINUED

16 comments:

Out of court settlement in a normal case always best. But not in this case Archbishop Byrnes. Archdiocese allowed abuse when it knew it was happening. This is the real evil. Sue Archdiocese only way. Unless you Archbishop Byrnes act with justice respect.Rewarding Adrian showed you dont care a dam about others.

until Byrnes shows honesty no to out of court settlements. Sue Archdiocese because if not Archdiocese will not change. More lawyers involved the greater good to clean up Apurons mess.If not for Tim Rohr David Lujan CCOG Apuron would still reign. Sue Archdiocese.

my thinking is to let Archdiocese of Agana burn to ash and then rebuild it. It cannot heal because wounds so deep. To sue is the only way to Justice. Unless Byrnes is really sincere and i dont see sincerity in his interview.

Byrnes knew Adrians history he chose to ignore it and reward him. If he is sincere he must pull Adrian out of St.Paul's that will be sincere. Admitting his mistake over Cristobal is not enough. He must correct the mistake.

While we don't want to see the Church burn to the ground, the cost is irrelevant. You worry about the cost to the Church, when the focus should be the terrible cost to the survivors because the Church failed to act!

If you have true faith, then seek justice, make those guilty pay the price (Church/perpetrators/abettors), and cleanse the structure of all the rot...all of it, no matter who it is.

If a doctor only removes half a tumor, the cancer will return. If he removes every single diseased cell, and then does regular radiation to prevent regrowth, the patient has a good prognosis.

Make no mistake that our Church is terribly diseased with a strain of cancer called NCW/Type Apurun. If Byrnes is to be a successful doctor and give his patient (our Church) a good prognosis, the knife will have to be sure, and go deep.

Let's pray he quickly gains the surgical skills needed for this complicated procedure. So far, he has looked more like an intern than a trusted and sage surgeon. He can change, he is a smart man. But he has to acknowledge the depth of problem and operate quickly!

Look at what happened to Native American victims of pedophile Franciscan priests in the bankrupt Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico.

Litigation and long diocesan bankruptcy proceedings dragged the suffering people through a knothole backwards and paid them very little. Their abusers went unpunished and lawyers for both sides made off with multi-millions.

The hated, elitist bishop sold only wasteland real estate that netted a lousy $16,000 after expenses. The Diocese kept their prime properties through a buyback scheme that swindled the victims as well. Will ownership of $75 million+ RMS be temporarily changed in order to keep it out of settlements?

Lawyers for both sides will be the only victors if these abuse cases go to trial. They should be quickly settled out of Court so revival of the dying archdiocese can proceed. Some of the victims already made detailed public statements about their ordeal, so the identity of their molesters is well known. It doesn't have to be repeated in Court at the victims' expense.

Rome will continue to protect Apuron and he'll escape civil prosecution for his crimes. Like Poland's pedophile archbishop Wesolowski, he might even be done in before his scheduled Court appearance. He already looks like death warmed over in the recent Fairfield, CA photo of him, so trumping up a natural death scenario won't be difficult.